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LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
s'Ths Lee Book" Memoirs of Gen. Robert Z. Lee,
by Gen. A. L. Long octave. 100 PIP; illustrated
Cloth, $50; library style, 500 Washington
u. C., W. F. Morse. Wheeling agents: r. IL.
CragO and J. Z. HOotOn.
As General Lee was not permitted like
General Grant, to write history OF his
campaign, it is fortunate that one who was
his military secretary and close companion
has undertaken the work. General Long
WAS in association wife General Lee from
the beginning of the war till its close at
Appommattox and was furnished all pa
pers and letters relating to the life Of the
distinguished General.
The work is attractively written and Is
complete biography OF General Lee, with
notices of the thrilling events of his life
time. The genealOgy Of the Lee family
and the early life of K. f. Lee and his
career in the Mexican war, form an inter
esting part of the work But it Is in the
incidents of the civil war that readers will
be more particularly interested, aud In
this portion of it's contents the work Is oil
peculiar value. Us it gives full history OF
the war in Virginia, without deviating
from its declared purpose as life OF Cen
ernl Lee. The events OF the war are
treated with brevity iii cOns0nance with
the main design of the writer, but with a
cIearness that brings the movements OF
the trOoEs in each battle with
Geographical correctness and clear
ness before the eye Of the reader.
The story of these great battles is told
A. General Lee himself would have told 1t
had he lived to write his own biography,
it yielding birds eye glance from posi-
ton of vantage over the whole field rather
than pursuing that more intricate method
that cOniuses with abundant OF detail, ana
concerns itself with the arts OF single regl-
ments 70 an extent that prevents any broad
Urasp of the whole situation. While anec-
dote and story come in to liyen the work,
they all illustrate the character and career
of the central figure, Gen. Lee.
Gen. Lees life as a college president and
citizen in time of peace contains much that
is entertaining and instructive. These
chapters of the work are written by Mar
Gus j. Wright, the agent of the U. ;. Gov
eminent for the collection OF Confederate
records.
The work is we'll illustrated by maps,
showing the movements Of armies, &c.
There is an appendix of 200 pages, that
contains much information on the history
and condition of the Southern COntederacy
that has never before been published.
The entire book is of great interest and
value to all who are interested in the career
of the greatest Southern General.
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The Americanism Of The Century New
York. is exhibited in the make up of the
January number. Except short COM
munication, it is wholly written by Ameri-
cans. Its subjects are for the most part
American and chiefly those Of close and
present interest to our people, such rs LIN
coin and the life of the West in the last
generation; the great events oil the ClVll
War; our material standing in comparison
with other nations; the Labor question;
the Prohibition movement; the need OF an
International Copyright, etc, etc. Where
the subjects are not American, as In the pa
pers on the French sculpt0rs and the
French actor, COquelin, they are closely
related TO our art life by the excellence OF
the artists considered; and the writers are
well-known American critics.
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The January number Of the North Amer
lean Rerie,r New York. has the following
contents: The Renaissance Of Rational
ism, Judge Tourgee; Socialism, Its Falla-
cies and Dangers, Chas. Bradlaugh; Pro-
gress of Minnesota, by the Governor; Fu'
ture of the National Banking System, j.
j. Knox, Good Words of False Faiths,
Gail Hamilton; The Anthracite Coal Pool,
r. F. Hudson; Some War Memoranda,
Walt Whitman; Why Am New Church,
man? Rev. Jas. Reed; The Constitutional
Amendments, Chief Justice Chase; What
Shall be Done With the Surplus? W. NJ.
Grosyenor; Labor in Pennsylvania, Henry
George: Burnside'S Controversies with
Lincoln: Henry Georges Land Tax, E. G..
Clark: Are the Heather our SuperiOrs?
Joseph Hewes; Defense of the President,
Dom Piatt.
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The Southern BirOUdc louisville, KY
of January, opens with an article, Ursu-
line Convent in New Orleans, the oldest
house in the Missippi Valley, accompanied
by an engraving of the convent. The ar
ticle is by Charles Dimitry Of Mobile.
The important article Of the number is
the second installment OF Judge Hines
story of the Northwestern Conspiracy,
which rapidly grows in interest. He pre-
sents q valuable picture of the political
situation ut the time, and throws much
light on several disputed points. The
statement is made that at the request OF
Secretary Stanton, Judge Black visited Mr..
Thompson in Canada on secret mission,
to learn, if possible, what if any grounds
for peace could be reached.
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The following is the table of contents OF
the January number of the best literary
periodical Of the West, the OrIldnd
MontRly, of San Francisco: The Punta-
coOset Colony, Leonard Kip; San Benito,
II. A. Burr; On Second Thought, Anthony
Morehead; Some "reminiscences OF Early
Trinity, T. f. Jones; 4 Climbing Fern,
Auna S. Reed; Jonas Lee, p. l.. Stern
berg; Contra Silentium, Elizabeth c. Ath-
erton; The Present Status of the Irrigation
Problem, Warren Olney; Cha'a and Chin
ita, Louise Palmer Pcayen; Vigil, John
B. Fabb; Is Ireland a Nation? W. J. Cor
bet, NJ. p; In the Sleepy Hollow Country,
s. n. Sheridan, Jr.; Recent Books on EyO-
lutinn